Archimedes Notebook

 Maybe you saw some cute, furry caterpillars wandering across your yard a few weeks ago? They look so fuzzy and cute - but don't pick th...

 One day I noticed that someone had been chewing on the carrots. The green tops, that is - and they had nibbled them down to the stems! At f...

    One Long Line: Marching Caterpillars and the Scientists Who Followed Them by Loree Griffin Burns;  illus. by Jamie Green 64 pages; ages ...

 Last week I was weeding the small and sorry-excuse-for-a-carrot-patch when I came across a very hungry caterpillar. Black swallowtail cater...

 A couple weeks ago, while counting pollinators for the Great Sunflower Project , I noticed this handsome caterpillar clinging to a stem in...

  I was weeding in the garden and discovered this sly cat hiding in the fennel. Well, not "hiding" - more like chowing down. Appar...

Broly0, Wikimedia Commons Woolly bears ~ the fuzzy black and brown caterpillars of the Isabella Tiger moth ~ are on the move. As the days gr...

Not a Bean  by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez; illus. by Laura Gonzalez 32 pages; ages 3-7 Charlesbridge, 2019  theme: nature, caterpill...

I was wondering where the dill went! Having eaten the leaves, this very hungry cat is going after flowers. Eating things right down to t...

gypsy moth caterpillar (creative commons) How much can a single caterpillar eat? A lot! Caterpillars are basically eating machines. They...